A QUESTION mark is hanging over the future of both Loughborough’s Marks and Spencers and Leicester's Fosse Park store.

This week the company announced that it would be closing 60 stores up and down the country.

On Tuesday, November 8, the UK retailer posted an 18.6 per cent plunge in half-year profits, and confirmed that it will close about 30 full line UK stores and change around 45 stores to only sell food.

The full list of closures has not yet been revealed.

A spokesperson from M&S told the Echo: "We won’t be releasing a list of UK shops at the moment.”

There are currently two local M&S stores, an M&S Foodhall in The Rushes, Loughborough and an M&S at Fosse Park Shopping Centre, Leicester.

According to reports M&S has reported an 18.6% fall in underlying pretax profit for its first half to October 1, expected profits were of around £216m predicted, but the actual figure posted was £231.1m.